“It was just like, they tend to keep black comics apart, black lady comics apart,” Robinson explained to John Fugelsang on Thursday. “That’s how bookers act, and so I was like ‘I want to do shows with women, people of color, queer people.'”

The duo booked their first live show together at Upright Citizens Brigade East in New York City — but their plans to showcase pre-produced videos fell to the wayside due to busy schedules.

“We didn’t see each other until 15 minutes before the show, and was like ‘what are three things that happened to you, what are three things that happened to you, and we’ll just talk about it.’ Because we both have an improv background, so we just kind of figured ‘it’ll be fine,'” Robinson recalled. “And then when we got on stage, we were like ‘yo, this is, like, really working insanely well.'”

“We just started it as a live show just because we liked to work together and talk about hot dudes and black hair,” Robinson said of the origins of her and Williams’ show. “And then, we were like ‘yeah, maybe we’ll turn this into a podcast.'”